I miss the days when the words used by the President of the United States mattered to people.

They don’t anymore. Not really.

Donald Trump just says things – wild, outlandish, ridiculous, untrue, idiotic, childish, hurtful, cruel, dictatorish things – and a large chunk of America treats it as if it came spewing forth from the mouth of some brain-dead host of a 2 a.m. radio show on actual radio.

Over the weekend, the president – the actual president of the United States – posted on his social media account an AI generated photo of himself in military garb (spoofing a character from “Apocalypse Now”) and included a message basically declaring war on Chicago.

If you’re unfamiliar, Chicago is a major U.S. city.

It barely made a ripple in the news pond where most Americans swim.

This was

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